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GREWIA ASIATICA. Tiliacece,. NAT. PHULSI. This shrub is 

 generally cultivated in most fruit gardens ; it bears a dark pur- 

 ple berry, when ripe, containing one or two small stones. The 

 fruit is generally made into sherbet by pouring boiling water on 

 it, and when cool, adding sugar to the taste. The plants are 

 generally cut down almost to the ground in November, and even 

 the leaves are burnt round the stalks, after which the roots are 

 opened and manured, and watered occasionally, when new shoots 

 spring out, and the fruit is borne near the axilla of each leaf ; 

 when of a dark purple, they are ripe and fit for use, grown 

 readily from the seed. 



G-REWIA HIRSUTA. T. JAVELLiKi. A shrubby plant ; fruit hairy, 

 common in the jungles. 



GOAVA. Vide Psidium Pybiferum. 



GUAZUMA TOMENTGSA. Byttneriticeoe. Rather a common tree, 

 with small yellow axillary and terminal flowers, capsule woody, 

 tubercled, about the size of a small plum. 



GUETTARDA SpECiosA. EubiacecB. NAT. PANEER-KA-POOL. A 

 small tree, with large white fragrant flowers, in blossom through- 

 out the year : the tree is sacred both to Siva and Vishnoo. 



HERITIERA LITTORALIS. Sterculiacece. NAT. SOONDREE. A 

 small tree, with alternate entire leaves, and flowers in axillary 

 panicles. 



HIBISCUS MUTAEILIS. MalvaeecB. The Changeable Rose. A 

 large shrub bearing white flowers in the morning, and changing 

 to red in the course of the day : easily propagated by cuttings. 



HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS. The Shoe flower. A large shrub 

 with several varieties of single and double flowers of various 

 colours. 



HIBISCUS TILIACEUS. Lime-tree leaved ditto. 



PHCENICEUS. Purple ditto. 



LAMPAS. Three pointed ditto. 



POPULNEUS. NAT. PARSPIPAL. Poplar leaved. This 

 is a large handsome tree with dark green shining leaves, the 

 flowers yellow, shaped like a tulip, capsules when ripe, hard and 



